Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-11-05

Cuft ouS ODSSh'"iohs oA the Man WIZ
Went Around the World on a R,cr.,-
Guzzling Habits of the Aggressive Y,
tions.
Taken ali in all, perhaps the Ene,s,
residents in India spend more money -
drink than any other people in the world
Plenty of people are, of course, ready 70
condemn this sort Of thing, and saw ~
Anglo Indians ought to quench their tbirs.
with non-intoxicants. More le,nonado &C,
less brandy and champage, it is clair0" u1
would materially lessen the rate az W.
tality from enlarged spleen, the hane a0l,
Anglo-Indian life. This NAV be stri.. ~
true, but the fact remains that ny
handful of hard drinking Britons are ~
ministering the affairs of 200, 600 0Ol n-aa
tically non-drinking people. f'"''
Some of the natives Of India eonsr,..
more or less arrack and palm toddv INV.
the Brahmins, the gentlest and easos.
governed people in the world, drink noH
ing stronger than water The only tr;b,
of people in India who drink to excess NV
the Eats # the Punjab. The festive Ia,
gets drunk on arraek, and indulges ~
manly sports like civilized being a.
the field of battle he is equal to n r6rnJ
dozen non-drinking Hindoos, and for,ns
today the flower of the native British. Tn'
dian army He it was that stood 6rp,i,.
by the English during the mutiny. AMI
performed prodigies of valor scarceIx
second to Tommy Atkins himself ia
calls the water drinking natives of Oude
and Bengal 'poorbeahs,n and is superior
to them in every manly attribute.
In Mohammedan countries very liitle
alcohol is consumed in proportion 10 Inc
number of people. The Koran denies tba
seductive pleasures of its material nara.
disc to Mussulmans who indulge in The
flowing bowl of Bacchus here below. Tbe
Shiahs are considered the Catholics of Tho
Mohammedan religion. The whole Per.
sian nation belong to the Shah faith lis
10000, 900 of people are governed with the
same ease as the same number of sheen
might be by few officials who care moth.
ing for their welfare except to soueeze
them like an orange whenever they feel
like it. The 10000 600 never touch any.
thing intoxicating from one years end 10
another. The governing few consume raw.
fiery arrack by the pint daily in wanton
disregard of the Koran and its teachings.
The village khan and subordinate COVER
nor of province keeps by him a stock Of
arrack and drinks from half pint to
pint with his midday meal to stimulate
his appetite and make himself feel booty
while eating, and Is frequently put to bed
limp as dishrag by his retainers at night
The Japs are the most encouraging iex-
amples that the east presents of a nation
progressing from .Asiatic to an European
plane of civilization. They bid fair ere
many years to be more European in their
habits than the majority of Europeans
themselves. One wouldn't care to assert
that the vast quantity OF sake consumed
by the Japanese has anything to do with
their superiority in this particular over all
other Asiatics. am merely pointing out
facts, leaving the reader to draw his or her
own conclusions therefrom
No nation in Asia drinks so persistently
and steadily as do the Japanese The
average Jap consumes about half pint
of sake or rice beer with each IueaI-,a
pint and a half per day-saying nothing
about further social indulgence in the
evening Both men and women drink
sake by the pint daily, and think no harm
of it, either. At meal times the sake is
served up in slender, big necked earthen-
ware bottles, holding about pint. The
favorite way is to drink 1t warm. II Is
usually warmed by setting the bottle in
boiling water for while before putting IL
on the table. Rice beer is rather de-
ceptive name to give sake, as it resembles
liquor more than beer, both in color, con-
sistency and Intoxicating property In
the consumption of alcohol the Japs, as
nation, rank way ahead Of any other
Asiatlc country. In addition TO sake,
they are also rapidly coming TO the fore
as consumers of beer and brandy and
whisky. Their consumption of these
beverages keeps curiously even pace
with their progression toward what we
are pleased to consider our own higher
plane Of civilization. When they first be-
gan to think Of wearing European clothes
they contented themselves with import.
ing French brandy and English and Nil
waukee beer. Now, however, the gov
eminent compels all its officials to adopt
European clothes, and the upper crust So
Ciety at Toxic are far from being alone In
Europeanizing their habits and costumes
Consequently the Japs have commenced
brewing their own beer and making
very good imitation of French brandy.
The Chinese as nation consume very
little intoxicating drink, although they
make beverage from rice called 'torri"
almost the counterpart of the sake OF
Japan. Whenever there has been war
between the two nations the Japs have in.
variably walloped John Chinaman almost
ag thoroughly as the arrack drinking Jats
asthe Punjab were wont to make things
warm for the total abstaining Hindoos in
81, and before.
The Turks are nation that drink next
to nothing Of stimulating character, I'M
less tiny cups Of strong black coffee may
be so considered. AS Mohammedans they
are less sanctimonious but more consistent
than the Persians. The Osmanli official
sometimes INDUCES in amastic, but II no
does, he consumes 1t in the guise of medi-
cine, the prohibitive voice of the KoraE
not including alcohol used as medicine
The Turks are brave and warlike, and If,
when their star of empire was in the
ascendancy and their crescent banner
fioated over half Europe, they had for
saken the prohibitfye tenets of the Koran
and went into brewing and drinking beer
and whisky, who knows but that they
might be occupying Moscow today instead
Of being bulldozed by the Russiansi
The Russians are a nation Of hard
drinkers. Vodka is consumed by the Mus
covite peasantry In vast quantities. The
moujfk's idea Of a holiday is 70 get skin
full Of vodka, and then lay down and
hang on to the ground. This laudable
performance is gone through with by the
Russian peasant as often as he can pro-
cure the necessary quantity Of vodka. He
has saints day to keep almost three
hundred and sixty-fye times year, and
the only thing that prevents him from
celebrating every one Of them by filing
himself up with vodka Is the necessity Of
making his living and the lack Of money
to thus indulge his appetite With all
this one would naturally expect to find
the country going to the devil and dete-
rioration. This fate, however, we find
reserved for the total abstaining Turks,
while the Russians make more and moro
noise In the world, and spread out and
are thought by many to be the coming
nation. -ThoBSes Stevens In New YORK
Sun.